[sword-devel] NASB

[Greg Hellings]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Matt Zabojnik <mattzab at gmail.com> wrote:

> The reasons are deep and political. Those who need to know them, already
>> know them.
>
> I appreciate your discretion in  your answer. Conversion difficulties was
> what I was primarily concerned with, so this is, in a sense, good news.
>
> The text is under Copyright by Lockman. Distributing the work would not be
>> legally permitted without obtaining their permission.
>
> Thank you. I have permission.
>

You have permission to distribute an NASB module from Lockman? That's
interesting.


>
> It's important for our own resources to know whence the upstream work was
>> found.
>
> I see. That being the case, there's no reason I wouldn't be able to
> convert a PD work from Zefania XML for example, or any other format I find
> it in, correct?
>

>From a technical perspective, you can convert from any source you can find
into a module for your own use. And from a technical perspective, it's very
easy to host your own module repository - requiring nothing more than an
accessible HTTP serving software.

As for Zefania, I don't believe you'll get much support or encouragement
from these parts surrounding Zefania.

--Greg


>
> Thank you for your ongoing support and information. It is indeed very
> helpful.
>
> Blessings,
> Matt
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Matt Zabojnik <mattzab at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the info!
>>>
>>> Would you mind explaining in different terms your reason for aborting
>>> the project? I didn't fully understand. Delivering to Lockman wasn't going
>>> to work for some reason?
>>>
>> The reasons are deep and political. Those who need to know them, already
>> know them.
>>
>>
>>> I haven't yet started working on this module, but the intent will be
>>> mass distribution rather than personal use only.
>>>
>> The text is under Copyright by Lockman. Distributing the work would not
>> be legally permitted without obtaining their permission.
>>
>>> Is it common for people to convert stuff for personal use? And how
>>> important is it to declare where I obtained a source text for public domain
>>> materials? I didn't see coverage on either of those in the wiki.
>>>
>> It's important for our own resources to know whence the upstream work was
>> found. This allows repeatable module generation should the upstream source
>> ever be updated and corrected. Very often problems are uncovered in
>> upstream works during the module creation process and this typically
>> continues once the module is in users' hands. The NASB, however, is not a
>> public domain work.
>>
>> --Greg
>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017, 12:15 PM Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Eons ago, Crosswire received permission from Lockman to begin work on an
>>> NSAB module that they could commercially deliver to users who paid for it.
>>>
>>> Many people have tackled the work of performing the conversions from
>>> Lockman's internal, proprietary markup to a Sword module. Each one has, for
>>> various reasons, abandoned the work. Most recently it was me, and I gave up
>>> due to a lack of a consistent or realistic objective for delivery of the
>>> results to Lockman.
>>>
>>> You can, essentially, assume that nothing more will ever come of it from
>>> the official channel. You'd be best to pursue converting another digital
>>> source for your own personal use.
>>>
>>> --Greg
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Matt Zabojnik <mattzab at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> What's the status on the NASB module? I saw it mentioned in the
>>> dictionary message. This is the first I've heard of it, being new to sword
>>> devel.
>>>
>>> I'm currently working to convert NASB with strongs, footnotes and
>>> references, but I need to learn OSIS and RegEx better first.
>>>
>>> Who here is the point-man on tyre work that's already been done there?
>>>
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